The minister was inside at the time, but Magnus with two girls was out in the barn.

At the same moment the partition between the weaving-shop and the sitting-room was broken down, and then three windows of the room itself--one above the minister's bed, another above his writing- table, and the third in front of the closet door.

A piece of a table was thrown in at one of these, and a spade at another.

At this the household ran out of that room into the loft, but the minister sprang downstairs and out; the old woman Gudrun who was named before went with him, and there also came Magnus and some of the others.

Just then a vessel of wash, which had been standing in the kitchen, was thrown at Gudrun's head.